Nevermind the jackets or the parapluies, notice anything different about the exterior to Balthazar, the most important dining establishment of our time? That's right, no canvas vestibule. Cue the Vivaldi. Ready Jesus for his resurrection. The spring, man, has cometh. No longer will one have to fling open those annoyingly flimsy canvas-and-plastic doors. No longer will one struggle fruitlessly with the physics of two doors opening into each other. Away with tarrying in the cold confusing antechamber! Spring has sprung. We are all free now! —josh

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